Entrance Slip - Orchard Garden

I am not really a gardening type of person. However, after reading this article and thinking about what I have learned in the B.Ed program, I am starting to like the idea of incorporating gardening into education. First of all, place-based-learning is a huge topic and focus for the new cirriculum. Place-based-learning is more than just trying to learn things about a certain place. Instead, the important part is the community that occupies the place rather than the place on its own. Hence, what better way to implement place-based-learning than to have students build and contribute to a garden as their own community? Moreover, as the article mentioned, gardening incorporates so much more than just gardening. One can easily combine the idea of food, culture, and language into the experience. Academically, we can teach them about the biology, earth science, mathematical symmetry, chemical composition of the scent, and many more.